thats kinda wierd mine finished in 7 minutes and it was off a backup. delete it after its done and turn your wii off, then plug in the hd and turn it back on and retry the rip. thats really slow

three questions for you bobbycreek05...
first one iso's on ur computer do you still 249 patch them and update patch them?
secondly you just said that was off a backup so can you install games already backed up onto discs onto your hdd from the wii i thought it had to be originals from the wii drive?
thirdly i have already asked this but didnt get a clear answer is the usb2.0 from the 4.0 update that waninkoko put out or do you still have to install cios usb2 to get the 2.0 support

so based on the article then I would need to install that cios usb2 to achieve the usb 2.0 and its not just from the update to system 4.0?

It takes me about 15 minutes to dump a 4GB game which seems to be much faster than your speed, and I didn't install any special USB cIOS, I did however install Waninkoko's 4.0 update. Anyone else want to compare transfer speeds?

thats kinda wierd mine finished in 7 minutes and it was off a backup.

Yes, Mario Kart also took me about this long.

do I have to format the partition with a special file format when moving isos on it?

Yes, you can do this with the init command for WBFS, or do it through the USB Loader's main menu (it'll prompt you to). Both require you have a pre-existing partition created before you can format it.

secondly you just said that was off a backup so can you install games already backed up onto discs onto your hdd from the wii i thought it had to be originals from the wii drive?

I can, too. I do have a modded drive though, so that might be a factor.

Question, people that transfer using WBFS, does it trim the ISO at all or are all your games 4GB on the HDD? I've been transferring from my Wii itself, and it trims games and they work great (Animal Crossing is 300MB!).

Question, people that transfer using WBFS, does it trim the ISO at all or are all your games 4GB on the HDD? I've been transferring from my Wii itself, and it trims games and they work great (Animal Crossing is 300MB!).

from what i heard yes it does trim the iso either way from wii and suppose to be also when using wbfs from pc

three questions for you bobbycreek05...
first one iso's on ur computer do you still 249 patch them and update patch them?
secondly you just said that was off a backup so can you install games already backed up onto discs onto your hdd from the wii i thought it had to be originals from the wii drive?
thirdly i have already asked this but didnt get a clear answer is the usb2.0 from the 4.0 update that waninkoko put out or do you still have to install cios usb2 to get the 2.0 support

1st. how is your wii modded? i have a hardmod so my chip blocks updates?
2nd. yes you can install them from backups, soft and hard modded
3rd. i am on firmware 3.2u and my usb speeds are insanley fast. i personally am staying away from that cios usb2 just because i heard some bad stuff. but ive also heard good stuff so its up to you to decide

Question, people that transfer using WBFS, does it trim the ISO at all or are all your games 4GB on the HDD? I've been transferring from my Wii itself, and it trims games and they work great (Animal Crossing is 300MB!).

yes it does scrub the iso to a smaller size the exact same way usbloader works

do I have to format the partition with a special file format when moving isos on it?

what i did what created a 90 gig partition on my 1tb mybook formatted to fat32. hook up the drive to the wii and start usb loader, it will ask what partition you want to format, click the appropriate partition and viola!!! your formatted to wbfs your now free to rip away

but when i fire up the usb loader I get a blank game list and then then a restart.

are you making sure to add the drive letters? if so and its still not working reformat your hd again to fat32 and then with the wii off plug it back into the wii and power on. use the usb loader to format the partion to wbfs and let me know if that works for you